Department of Health

Today, we’ll catch up with WVIA Bilingual reporter Robert Collado on the closing of a South Scranton church. And Pennsylvania's Health Secretary criticizes potential cuts to Medicaid.

Secretary Debra Bogen of the State Department of Health championed the Wyoming County State Health Center’s reopening in downtown Tunkhannock.

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture notified local governments and agencies last week that the federal government is holding back money appropriated for the vouchers, which means fewer recipients will get vouchers and their distribution has been delayed.

The City of Wilkes-Barre unveiled a new mobile health clinic.

Pennsylvania's Department of Health is evaluating cancer data in the area surrounding the former manufacturing plant in Lackawanna County that operated over decades as Specialty Records, WEA Manufacturing, and Cinram.

Restorative Roots Recovery owns the only licensed male recovery houses in Luzerne County. While the owners have plans to grow, the federal government looks to shrink funding for recovery services.

Today, Pennsylvania’s governor wants more money for rural hospitals while other health programs are worried about federal cuts. And as egg prices remain high, we look for some breakfast alternatives.

The Trump administration’s recent cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services included billions of dollars in grants to the states. Gov. Josh Shapiro joined a multistate lawsuit against the administration, resulting in a temporary pause on the cuts. But Luzerne and Lackawanna county officials are left waiting on money that may not come.

Avian influenza poses a low risk to humans, the Centers for Disease Prevention (CDC) reports, but officials in Pennsylvania are not taking chances as cases appear in other states.

'There weren't teachers in the classrooms,' Lackawanna Trail superintendent says of wave of sickness that infected Northeast Pennsylvania and tore through his district.